Under Xi Jinping, the pace of expanding censorship and control over cyberspace has accelerated in the name of “cyber sovereignty.” Just in the past year, a flurry of measures has been proposed or implemented to increase police surveillance of the Internet under the guise of protecting “national security.”
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The Chinese government must release activist Zhen Jianghua, an activist working with Human Rights Campaign in China (HRCC). Zhuhai police have formally arrested him on suspicion of “inciting subversion of state power,” according to his lawyer.
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(2018年3月14日发布) 经“曹顺利人权捍卫者纪念奖”发起机构表决，决定将第四届“曹顺利人权捍卫者纪念奖”颁发给人权捍卫者陈建芳女士和李小玲女士。2018年3月14日是曹顺利女士在她被任意羁押期间受折磨而被夺去生命四周年纪念日，该日被大陆维权人士设定为“人权捍卫者日”。
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Human rights defenders Chen Jianfang and Li Xiaoling have been named the co-recipients of the fourth Cao Shunli Memorial Award for Human Rights Defenders. The two women defenders are recognized for their contributions in promoting human rights at the grassroots level in China. March 14 marks the fourth anniversary of (read more…)
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Chinese human rights defenders demonstrated remarkable resilience in promoting and protecting human rights in the face of government repression, says CHRD in its annual report. Repression & Resilience documents the situation of human rights defenders in China in 2017.
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（CHRD – 2017年1月29日）在最近的几个月内，中国司法部门又开始新一轮对人权律师的打压活动，先后非法剥夺了几位律师的执业权利，受害律师包括余文生律师，隋牧青律师，祝圣武律师，吴有水律师，王理乾律师，王龙德律师。这是官方在报复惩罚这些律师正当行使言论自由权、敢言批评当局的司法腐败、并努力倡导司法独立。
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Chinese authorities have stripped several human rights lawyers of their law licenses in recent months, sending a strong signal that the government will continue to punish lawyers who are not cowed into silence by the “July 2015 Crackdown.”
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“人权小额资助”项目旨在为遭受人权侵犯的受害者（尤其是人权捍卫者）提供寻求司法救济的法律援助； 为受到迫害的人权捍卫者提供人道援助； 并支持维护和倡导人权、追究侵犯人权的罪责等公民行动。本项目同时致力于督促中国政府兑现《世界人权宣言》并落实中国政府批准加入的各项国际人权公约，促使国内法的制订和实施与国际人权标准接轨，保障公民、政治、经济、社会、文化等方面的基本人权。
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CHRD calls on the Chinese government to immediately and unconditionally release activist Wu Gan, who was handed an 8-year prison sentence in December in retaliation for exercising his right to free speech and assembly.
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中国人权捍卫者网络欢迎美国政府将中国警官高岩列为《全球马格尼斯基问责法》的52名制裁对象之一。2014年1月至2016年10月期间，高岩担任北京朝阳区公安分局局长一职。根据这一法案，在「指挥责任」这一原则下，高岩被制裁是因为在曹顺利被拘留在朝阳看守所期间，警方对她施行酷刑和非人道待遇，包括拒绝提供适当的医疗，拒绝律师多次提出的“保外就医“的请求，最终导致她的病情严重恶化，送到警方严守的医院急救无效死亡。另外也是因为他在朝阳区担任其它警方职位期间发生在朝阳看守所的多起人权侵犯事件，包括对艾未未、王荔虹、李海、许乃来等人的任意羁押和酷刑。
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The US Government has designated Gao Yan (高岩) for sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act for his role in the death of Chinese activist Cao Shunli in March 2014, while he was the chief of the Chaoyang District Public Security Bureau Branch in Beijing.
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（中国人权捍卫者网络——2017年12月10日）——在纪念今年的12月10日世界人权日之际，中国人权捍卫者网络（CHRD）认为，国际社会必须非常警惕中国政府全球攻势，中国正试图瓦解国际人权的核心准则。自2017年1月习近平在日内瓦万国宫发表演说以来，中国政府已经重新开始推销「中国特色人权观」，将「发展」置于人权之上，用经济增长取代保护经济社会人权。这一轮新的攻势标志着习近平“复兴中国”的民族主义运动出现了对外扩张的拐点，开始向全世界推销「中国模式」。
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